leaving the world of iMessage

November 26th 2014 (article update)

if you want to leave the world of imessage fear no more, apple finally created an escape hatch.
visit this link... https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage

may 14th 2014 (original article)

leaving the world of iMessage seems easy (and is) but it comes off as frustrating.

iMessage uses your data plan to send messages (picture & text) if you turn iMessage off, it uses your "text message plan" to send pictures and text. Keep in mind most plans are unlimited text+talk with a limited amount of data.

When you take a picture with your iphone they are around 2mb each. If you send a bunch or picture texts that can add up quick !

Tmobile gives me 1GB of free fast data each month and when i run out of that i get slowed down to 2g speed (unlimited). When i had iMessage turned on i went over my 1GB free :(

If you send 17 picture messages a day on iMessage at 2mb each thats 34mb/day TIMES 30 days in a month, well thats your 1GB of free data. & this equation doesnt include the web surfing you do...

So whats the benifit of using iMessage? im not really sure,,, maybe picture text send faster over data.

The headache i encountered when i turned off iMessage goes as followed.

I could send and receive "text" messages just fine, but "picture" messages were goofy for a few days. I could send picture texts to people right away. The issue was i couldn't receive any picture texts for 3 days. After a bunch of reading on the internet i learned that it takes 3 days for your iMessage to be fully turned off on the apple servers.

The only drawback to not using iMessage is that i cant text my children on their ipads. I can still facetime them and we now use skype for texting.